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Sketches of Ethiopia
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Released: 2014
Track listing: Azmari; Gamo; Hager Fiker; Gambella; Assosa Derache; Gumuz; Motherland Abay; Surma.
Mulatu Astatke: Sketches of Ethiopia
by Ian Patterson
Vibraphonist/composer Mulatu Astatke is the creator of Ethio-jazz and reputedly the first African musician to study at Berklee. Prior to that he had studied music in Wales and London. Whilst in America in the 1960s and early 1970s Astatke absorbed diverse influences and a dense rhythmic mosaic is a key component of this pulsating recording. Afro-Latin, ...
Henry Mancini: Music for Peter Gunn
by Jack Bowers
Who could ever forget the assertive, pulse-quickening theme from Peter Gunn, the urbane TV detective series that ran from 1958-61, with its jazz-centered score by the incomparable Henry Mancini. In case you are one of those who has (forgotten the theme, that is), you can now savor it anew (with much more music from the show), ...
Sketches Of Ethiopia
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Released: 2013
Track listing: Azmari; Gamo; Hager Fiker; Gambella; Assosa Derache; Gumuz; Motherland Abay; Surma.
New Day
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Released: 2013
Track listing: A Degüello; Cimarrón; Paseo; Fantasmas En Caravana; Otro Viaje; New Day; Corriendo Por Los Portales; Eso Fue Hace 20; Buenos Modales; Enero.
Mulatu Astatke: Sketches of Ethiopia
by Chris May
Sketches of Ethiopia is, extraordinarily, the first album Mulatu Astatke, the godfather of Ethio-jazz, has recorded with his own band for an international label of influence. It has been a long time coming and it is a corker.Astatke, on vibraphone and keyboards, is accompanied by his regular touring band, Step Ahead, which has at ...
Diagnostic
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Released: 2011
Track listing: Lily (is 2); Will Soon Be a Woman; Intro; Maeva in the Wonderland; Your Soul; Everything or Nothing; Never Serious; They Don't Care About Us; Douce; All The Beautiful Things; DIAGNOSTIC; Beirut.
Ibrahim Maalouf: Diagnostic
by Hrayr Attarian
Much like his uncle, the celebrated author Amin Maalouf--who brought Levantine raconteur to the western novel--trumpeter/composer Ibrahim Maalouf infuses his jazz with Middle Eastern musicality. On Diagnostic--the last installment of a trilogy--Maalouf actually draws from many different sources to create a unique sound that remains definitely in the jazz tradition. The all-woman, Franco-Brazilian ...
Beethoven: The "Late" Quartets
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Released: 2010
Track listing: Opus 127; Opus 130; Opus 131; Opus 132; Opus 133; Opus 135.
The Tokyo Quartet: Beethoven: The "Late" Quartets
by AAJ Staff
Just as any real and informed music fan is familiar with the Duke Ellington “Blanton Webster Band," Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue (Columbia, 1959), and Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives and Sevens recordings, so should they also be immersed in Beethoven's famous late string quartets. There are pre-echoes of twentieth century popular music harmony here, but additionally, ...
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